VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City’s health sector and administration are facing up to the significant challenge of attempting to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic amid a rapid rise in local cases, most of which have been detected in production areas and hospitals.

A new smartphone app is aiming to make the lives of disabled people in Vietnam easier by giving them better access to support.

Ho Chi Minh City has been asked to work harder to impose restriction measures on the smallest possible scale so as not to prolong large-scale social distancing.

VOV.VN - A total of 81 fresh domestic cases were confirmed positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus by the Ministry of Health in the current hotspots of Bac Giang and Ho Chi Minh City on June 18 morning, raising the national local infection tally to 8,994 in the latest coronavirus wave.

The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security announced on June 17 that it had busted a drug trafficking ring with the involvement of some Taiwanese (China).

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung proposed the World Bank continue to help Vietnam in addressing core issues in social welfare, poverty reduction, and in narrowing the gap between regions at his meeting with WB Country Director for Vietnam Carolyn Turk on June 17.

VOV.VN - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son on June 17 handed over more than VND6.2 billion raised by Vietnamese nationals abroad and some organisations to the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee in support of the national COVID-19 vaccine fund.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has confirmed an additional 136 coronavirus cases during the past six hours, raising its 24-hour count to 515, a record high figure so far, the Ministry of Health said in its 06.00pm COVID-19 update on June 17.

VOV.VN - More than 800,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been transported to the cold storage facility of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City in preparation for the rollout of a large-scale vaccination campaign.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) Central Committee on June 17 received 35,000 medical face masks and 1,000 Nano silver disinfectant bottles presented by the International WeLoveU Foundation to support the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of National Defence presented its medical equipment aid for the Lao Ministry of Defence at a symbolic handover ceremony in Hanoi on June 17, which was attended by Lao Ambassador to Vietnam Sengphet Houngboungnuang.

VOV.VN - Following Prime Minister Pham Minh Chin’s order to shut down 'non-essential' shops in Ho Chi Minh City until June 29 due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), many streets in the southern city have been left virtually deserted.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Do Van Chien on June 16 received VND10 billion (some US$431,700) from the Republic of Korea’s Hyosung Vietnam Co. Ltd. to Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund.

VOV.VN - As many as 220 people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Vietnam during the past six hours, raising the country’s cumulative tally of infections to 12,014, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh and Chairwoman of the city’s Fatherland Front Committee Nguyen Lan Huong have called on local organisations, businesses and people to donate to the city’s COVID-19 vaccination programme.

VOV.VN - The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C04) has broken up a transnational drug trafficking ring from Europe to Vietnam, detaining 16 suspects and seizing 127 kg of narcotics.

VOV.VN - A container ship carrying an additional two trains for Ho Chi Minh City’s metro line No. 1 has departed Japan and is scheduled to dock at Khanh Hoi Port in the city’s District 4 on June 20.

VOV.VN - A communal police officer has been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the fifth case in central Nghe An province, according to the provincial Centre for Disease Control (CDC).

The Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) wrapped up a three-week training course on International Mine Action Standards Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Level 3 in the central province of Quang Tri on June 16.

Pfizer vaccine is only supplied via bilateral deals with Governments, said John Paul Pullicino from Pfizer Vietnam during an online training session for market management staff on June 16.

The Vietnamese community in Australia has raised funds in support of the fight against COVID-19 in their homeland.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health is set to allow F1 cases involving individuals who came into first-hand contact with a OVID-19 patient to quarantine at home in an effort to ease pressure on concentrated isolation facilities, as well as frontline healthcare workers.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health on June 16 hit back at rumours that a newly mutated strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has emerged and spread quickly in Ho Chi Minh City, the busiest and most populous city of Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Nearly one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a gift of the Japanese government and people to the government and people of Vietnam, arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi late on June 16.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has recorded an additional 159 coronavirus cases, including 158 locally acquired infections, in eight localities nationwide during the past 12 hours, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in its 06.00am COVID-19 update.

VOV.VN - The nation reported a total of 423 new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on June 16, including 414 domestic infections and 9 imported ones, according to details provided by the Ministry of Health.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has recently issued a directive asking relevant ministries and localities to ensure stable jobs, improve life quality and working conditions of labourers, especially factory workers nationwide.

The US-based The Diplomat on June 15 ran an article describing the “unusually hard spot” Vietnam is in right now, with a surge in new COVID-19 cases and the low rate of vaccinations, and analyzing how the country is going to get through this.

Vietnam and Iran planned to hold a webinar next month to improve their technological cooperation, Mehr News of Iran reported on June 15.

VOV.VN - The northern province of Bac Ninh is poised to lift some social-distancing restrictions placed on Yen Phong district and several communes of Que Vo district, with the move set to take effect from June 16.